This course includes effective methods and techniques used in determining the academic, intellectual, educational, and aptitude potential of persons with disabilities. Content also includes exploring the ethical practice of assessment and evaluation, test development, reliability, validity, and psychometrics, report writing, use of commercial evaluation systems, and the role of assessment in rehabilitation and clinical mental health counseling programs and agencies.

This course is designed to prepare rehabilitation and clinical mental health counselors in the development of skills for placement of persons with disabilities into a variety of settings including competitive employment, supported employment, and independent living. The course covers placement and career theory and development, pre-placement analysis, job readiness assessment, job development, job analysis, job engineering (work accommodations and modifications), employer attitudes, business rehabilitation, and social security disability.

This course is designed to provide an overview of counseling theories and how they can be applied to a wide variety of circumstances within clinical mental health and rehabilitation counseling context for persons with disabilities. A goal of this course is to acquire knowledge about clinical mental health theoretical orientations and to integrate theory with practice.

This course provide an overview of the techniques of counseling and how they can be applied in a Clinical Rehabilitation and Mental Health Counseling context. The course also allow you to acquire knowledge about theoretical orientations and to develop skill in integrating theory with counseling practice. Emphasis will be on helping students clarity beliefs, values, and personal style, and connecting those to the beliefs and values of the various theories; and identifying commonalities across theories as these relate to clinical rehabilitation and mental health counseling.

This course is designed to prepare rehabilitation and clinical mental health counselors and other human service providers to become knowledgeable of counseling theory and skilled in group and family counseling techniques, with a focus on concerns related to disability and rehabilitation and clinical mental health counseling.

The course is designed to provide the student with clinical learning experiences under faculty supervision in a community-based or state rehabilitation mental health agency. The student is expected to demonstrate knowledge and skills in the application of rehabilitation and mental health counseling methods, techniques, and vocational knowledge in working with persons with disabilities. In addition, the student is required to perform all tasks in accordance to ethical and legal standards in clinical rehabilitation mental health counseling.

This course is designed to provide rehabilitation and clinical mental health counseling students with a comprehensive knowledge of rehabilitation in business environments. Skills to develop a professional working relationship between the rehabilitation and clinical mental health counseling professional, employers, the insurance industry, and other professionals will be taught. A thorough overview of worker compensation, related legislation, and other insurance will be presented. The roles and functions of the rehabilitation professional in business rehabilitation will be discussed.

This course is designed to provide students with a broad spectrum of psychological disorders that are encountered by rehabilitation clinical mental health counselors, and other mental health professionals in various treatment settings. Specific attention is given to the etiology, prevalence, symptoms, and treatment of these disorders. Students will develop a better understanding of the DSM and the International Classification of Diseases. This course incorporates both national and global perspectives of psychological disorders.

This course is designed to provide a basic knowledge and understanding of the origins, development, and underpinnings of supported employment, transition, and independent living for rehabilitation and clinical mental health counselors.